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006540
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USA, Scholastic, 2003.
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64pBlue Spine
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If You
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Life long ago on the Prairie was a big adventure. This book tells you what it was like to be there.
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0439414288 Pb.
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| 007023 | 978.02/KAM | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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005549
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USA, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006.
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96pBrown Spine
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Contains personal narratives from settlers and soldiers as well as profiles and accounts of the actions of many historical luminaries involved in Reconstruction and the movement west.
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Introduction
The Civil War
Reconstruction Begins: 1863-1864
The Homestead Act
The American Frontier: 1865
The First Settlers: The Native Americans
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction
"Contrabands" and Freedmen
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
The Transcontinental Railroad
The Civil War Amendments
Land and Social Reform in the South
Sodbusters and Barbed Wire
Congressional Reconstruction
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
President Ulysses S.Grant
Corruption, Scandal, and the Civil Service
The Immigrants
Roughing It: Women on the Frontier
Wyoming Territory and Women's Suffrage
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
Prejudice, Racism, and the Ku Klux Klan
The End of Reconstruction: 1877
The Cowboy
The Cattle Drives
Map for Highways for the Herds
Broken Treaties and Reservations
The Outlaws
The Wild West in Popular Culture
The Lawmen
The Indian Wars in the Northern Plains
Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and the Sioux
The Battle of the Little Bighorn
The Buffalo Soldiers
Frontier Arts and Letters
Indian Wars in the Southwest
Geronimo and the Apache
The Ghost Dance
The Last Days of the Frontier: 1890
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0689865430 Hb.
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| 006256 | 978.02/McP | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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011141
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Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society, 2002.
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127pBrown Spine
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A wonderful collection of true tales by a noted storyteller presents a lively, historically accurate, and often surprising picture of America's Wild West. Period images and vivid quotes draw readers into each meticulously researched tale. Kids set out with Lewis and Clark in search of a route to the Pacific join Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding, the first white women to cross the Rocky Mountains ride with the Pony Express shoot it out with the Earps and the Clantons head north to strike it rich in the Klondike and share all kinds of other exciting adventures as Americans push westward. Arranged chronologically, the unfolding tales give readers a highly entertaining history of the American West.
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Big river : Lewis and Clark descend the Columbia (1805)
No water : Jedediah Smith crosses the desert (1826)
Independence Day : Narcissa and Eliza cross the Rockies (1836)
I have found it! : James Marshall discovers gold (1848)
Blood on the trail : the Grattan fight (1854)
They're off! : first ride of the Pony Express (1860)
A railroad to the moon : completion of the transcontinental railroad (1869)
We shoot, we ride fast, we shoot again : the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
Throw up your hands! : showdown in Tombstone (1881)
Gold! gold! gold! : the Klondike stampede (1897)
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0792282183 Hb.
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| 011213 | 973.5/WAL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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